Synopses & Reviews
Thinking about buying or selling items on eBay? Whether you want to use eBay to make smart bids and win auctions or turn household clutter into cash,
eBay for Dummies, Fifth Edition is your passport to the most successful trading community on the planet. Beginning with an overview of what eBay is and how to become a registered user,
eBay for Dummies helps you discover how you can:
- Search for items to buy and list items to sell on eBay
- Place a bid—and determine how much you should spend
- Use pictures and basic HTML to make your eBay listings more appealing
- Communicate well and close deals without a problem
- Identify auction terms (reserve price, starting bid, Buy It Now, etc.)
- Organize your transactions and interactions using the My eBay page
- Resolve buying and selling issues with eBay’s Trust & Safety program
- And much more!
Registering at eBay makes you part of a really unique community of people who like to collect, buy, and sell items of just about every kind! So if you’re ready to join the millions of people who use their home computers to make great deals, buy cool stuff, and turn a profit, eBay for Dummies does all the legwork so you can sit back and let the bidding begin!
Synopsis
Buy low, sell high, and join the eBay communityEconomy shopper or entrepreneur — discover the secrets to eBay success!
The bucks start here! Whether you're saving them or earning them, eBay's the place, and Marsha Collier is the person to show you how. Get great safe-shopping secrets, find out how to sell what people are buying, ship stuff the right way, bag auction bargains, deal with problem transactions like a pro, and more.
Discover how to
- Bid to win your first auction
- Unearth unmatched bargains
- Earn positive feedback points
- Turn your junk into cash as an eBay seller
- Enhance listings with photos
Synopsis
Marsha Collier is today s most visible and respected eBay guru, and her eBay For Dummies is the bestselling eBay guide on the market, with more than 400,000 copies sold in previous editions. Now Marsha has updated her indispensable eBay primer to cover the latest changes to eBay s listing and payment tools, search options, and business-building tools Aimed squarely at beginning eBay users, the book covers the basics of both buying and selling, from winning auctions and arranging payments and shipping to creating listings that attract lots of bids. Packed with savvy insider tips on buying low, selling high, and avoiding trouble, it s just what newcomers need for eBay success Extensively updated to reflect changes in eBay s seller tools, search tools, My eBay pages (where users control their accounts), fee structure, interface, and the PayPal payment system Now covers eBay s newest sites and tools, including buy.com and the Skype Internet phone service The market for eBay beginner books continues to grow, with 16 million new active user accounts opened on eBay in 2005Synopsis
Buy low, sell high, and join the eBay community
Economy shopper or entrepreneur--discover the secrets to eBay success
The bucks start here Whether you're saving them or earning them, eBay's the place, and Marsha Collier is the person to show you how. Get great safe-shopping secrets, find out how to sell what people are buying, ship stuff the right way, bag auction bargains, deal with problem transactions like a pro, and more.
Discover how to: Bid to win your first auction Unearth unmatched bargains Earn positive feedback points Turn your junk into cash as an eBay seller Enhance listings with photos
Synopsis
Buy low, sell high, and join the eBay community
Economy shopper or entrepreneur — discover the secrets to eBay success!
The bucks start here! Whether you're saving them or earning them, eBay's the place, and Marsha Collier is the person to show you how. Get great safe-shopping secrets, find out how to sell what people are buying, ship stuff the right way, bag auction bargains, deal with problem transactions like a pro, and more.
Discover how to Bid to win your first auction Unearth unmatched bargains Earn positive feedback points Turn your junk into cash as an eBay seller Enhance listings with photos
About the Author
Marsha Collier spends a good deal of time on eBay. She loves buying and selling (she’s a PowerSeller with her own eBay store) as well as meeting eBay users from around the world. As columnist, author of three best-selling books on eBay, and guest lecturer at eBay University, she shares her knowledge of eBay with millions of online sellers. Thousands of eBay fans also read her monthly newsletter,
Cool eBay Tools, to keep up with the changes on the site.
eBay For Dummies is published in special versions for the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and Australia. Currently, she has 15 books in print on her favorite subject — eBay.
Out of college, Marsha worked in Fashion Advertising for the Miami Herald and then as Special Projects Manager for the Los Angeles Daily News. In 1984, she founded a home-based advertising and marketing business. Her successful business, the Collier Company, Inc., was featured by Entrepreneur magazine in 1985 (today she’s Entrepreneur.com’s eBay columnist). Marsha’s company later received the Small Business of the Year award from her California State Assemblyman and the Northridge Chamber of Commerce.
Most of all, Marsha loves a great deal — that’s what drew her to eBay in 1996, and that’s partially what keeps her busy on the site now. She buys everything from replacement toothbrush heads to parts for pool equipment to designer dresses. Marsha knows how to work and profit from eBay, and in this book, she shares that knowledge with you.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Forget the Bricks and Mortar: Getting a Feel for eBay.
Chapter 1: Why eBay Is a Terrific Place to Buy and Sell.
Chapter 2: The Bucks Start Here: Signing Up at eBay.
Chapter 3: There’s No Place Like the Home Page.
Chapter 4: My Own Private eBay.
Part II: Are You Buying What They’re Selling?
Chapter 5: Seek and You Shall Find: Research.
Chapter 6: Shopping eBay: The Basics.
Chapter 7: Power-Bidding Strategies.
Chapter 8: After You Win the Item.
Part III: Are You Selling What They’re Buying?
Chapter 9: Selling in Your Fuzzy Slippers for Fun and Profit.
Chapter 10: Time to Sell: Completing the Cyber Paperwork.
Chapter 11: Forget the Car — Drive Your Mouse to an eBay Store.
Chapter 12: Closing the Deal and Shipping It Out.
Chapter 13: Troubleshooting Your Transaction.
Chapter 14: Using Pictures and Strategies to Increase Your Profits.
Part IV: Oy Vay, More eBay! Special Features.
Chapter 15: Privacy: To Protect and to Serve.
Chapter 16: eBay’s Trust & Safety Program.
Chapter 17: The eBay Community: Joining In with Other eBay Members.
Chapter 18: Fun Stuff and Features.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Golden Rules for eBay Buyers and Sellers.
Chapter 20: Ten (Or So) Programs and Services to Ease Your Way on eBay.
Index.